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Category: politics

40 Years After Roe—By The Numbers

On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court decided by a 7-2 margin that a woman has a right to an abortion. Forty years later, though 70 percent of Americans support the court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, 87 percent of counties in the United States do not have one clinic that offers legal abortions, and…

January 22, 2013
Two Bibles-One Oath.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is putting a symbolic twist on a time-honored tradition, taking the oath of office for his second term with his hand placed not on a single Bible, but two — one owned by Martin Luther King Jr. and one by Abraham Lincoln. The inclusion of King’s Bible is particularly…

January 11, 2013
Romney was a Diamondique. He flip-flopped in so many directions that he became a political contortionist.

It’s not that Romney never let the voters in to see the the real Mitt as the Boston Globe piece implies. If it were that simple his handlers and media advisors would have picked up on that and fixed it quickly. Romney’s problem was that he was a fake diamond: a diamondique. In Mass. he…

December 23, 2012
Favorite Headline From Today’s Sunday Papers: A Final Farwell to Sen. Daniel Inouye. Inouye.

December 23, 2012
Only 8% of small business make over 200K a year.

House Speaker John Boehner greatly exaggerated the negative effect on the economy of raising taxes on upper-income individuals. Boehner erred when he said that “the problem with raising tax rates on the wealthiest Americans is that more than half of them are small-business owners.” That’s incorrect. Boehner’s spokesman said the speaker simply misspoke, but Boehner…

November 16, 2012